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How to be a Savvy Shopper
Ever find yourself surprised by the cost of your shopping when you get to the till? Want to find out smart but simple ways to save on your supermarket shopping? Don’t panic! Fair Finance’s savvy shopper tips are here to help you save £s at the tills. Save money by
Work Smarter not Harder!
As your small business grows, both your staff resources and their skillsets will also need to expand accordingly. This raises the dilemma of how much training you need to provide for your staff – and also for you! It is tempting to try and keep things running without any training
Citi Micro Entrepeneurship Awards: Fair Finance Wins CDFI Growth Award
On the 4th of March Fair Finance attended the annual Citi Micro Entrepreneurship Awards. We were nominated for the CDFI Growth award and we won! So why did we win? Fair Finance has grown substantially within the last 10 years. In 2005 we opened our first office, now we have
How Accurate are Price Comparison Websites?
When looking for a new business loans the first thing that many business owners do is to check out a price comparison website. However, let the buyer beware, or as they say in Latin, “caveat emptor” – not all price comparison websites accurately reflect the costs each loan entails. There
Nikki Knuckles Down With The Payday Lenders
One of our main aims is to help our clients escape the clutches of Payday Lenders, and Loan Sharks who charge extortionate rates of interest. Recently, Personal Loans officer Nikki was able to help client Andre (not his real name) come out of a dangerous cycle of payday loan usage.
Five Ways To Avoid Failing In Business
A recent Fair Business Loans UK blog referred to the TV series The Fixer, whose aim is not only entertaining its viewers, but also championing small businesses. That led us to consider some of the common reasons for why many small businesses end up failing, and in this post we
Let’s Do Business Together – January’s Event
Fair Business Loans has teamed up with Bootstrap Company & Real People for our second skills sharing and networking event for local businesses. Following on from the success of the last Let’s Do Business Together event, the 1st week of February saw Fair Business Loans and Bootstrap co-hosting the second
Does Your Business Need ‘The Fixer’?
2015 is still quite new and this means the inevitable flood of new TV series. One such is The Fixer, featuring Alex Polizzi, the “champion of small businesses”. The programme features a different small business each week that is in some way struggling. It is up to Alex to find
5 Top Tips for Reducing Small Business Costs in 2015
Now the New Year is well under way, it is easy for a small business to get overwhelmed by day to day operational issues and forget its New Year’s resolutions for business improvement in 2015. Just to give you some food for thought, and spur you into action, we’ve put
Connect. Collaborate. Create. Let’s Do Business!
On Wednesday 15th October 2014, Fair Business Loans was delighted to co-launch a series of free business events called Let’s Do Business in collaboration with Bootstrap, another award winning social business supporting enterprises. In fact we recently helped Bootstrap themselves to finance their own future which you can read more
